Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1576 Episoder
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Srebrenica massacre
Publisert: 29.10.2025 -
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Publisert: 28.10.2025 -
Death of a priest
Publisert: 27.10.2025 -
The man who invented the scratch card
Publisert: 24.10.2025 -
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
Publisert: 23.10.2025 -
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Publisert: 22.10.2025 -
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Publisert: 21.10.2025 -
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
Publisert: 20.10.2025 -
My aunt created The Moomins
Publisert: 17.10.2025 -
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
Publisert: 16.10.2025 -
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
Publisert: 15.10.2025 -
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
Publisert: 14.10.2025 -
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
Publisert: 13.10.2025 -
How BRICS got its name
Publisert: 10.10.2025 -
Japan surrenders in Beijing
Publisert: 9.10.2025 -
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
Publisert: 8.10.2025 -
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
Publisert: 7.10.2025 -
The home video war
Publisert: 6.10.2025 -
The acquittal of OJ Simpson
Publisert: 3.10.2025 -
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
Publisert: 2.10.2025
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest, the disastrous D-Day rehearsal, and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
